The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 29, 1888, Page 2

SS ee eee Ee ¢ 4 Prete ited oe STORIES OF THE JAMES BOYS Some Good Tales Told of the Celebrated Firm. The Phantom Horseman Which Jesse James Considered a Forerunner ot Eyil—A Lady Who Confided in Frank James —Discom- fitted Drummers. Colonel Frank James, the well known surviving member of the; celebrated firm known as the James boys, has maintained his usual reti- cence regarding his former history since he has been in town. It wasa curious sight to see the noted ex- bandit chief sitting quietly down at a table in the Turner Hall bouffe on Monday, during the recess of the committee, eating lunch with Dr. Munford, Major Stonestreet and other well known gentlemen. If anybody had predicted such anevent four or five years ago when the offi- cers of Clay and Jackson counties were periodically scouring the coun- try for the James boys he would have been laughed at. The following stories regarding the James boys were told by a pris- oner who was Frank James’ cell mate when both were confined in the In- dependence jail: THE PHANTOM HORSEMAN. The story of the phantom horse- man was always firmly believed by the companions of Frank and Jesse James. Frank was always the least superstitious of the men who rode with the celebrated raiders. Jesse, however, had 2 strong vein of super- stition in his composition, and firmly believed that the phantom horseman was his own peculiar banishee. He frequently asserted that the appear- ance of the apparition was intended as a waining or foreboded evil. The first time Frank James saw the ap- parition was one night when he, Jesse and several other members of the outlawed night riders were riding along a lonely road in Kentucky. As they emerged fromthe heavy shadow of the trees, where the two roads met, they came upon an open space where the moon shone brightly the converging cross roads. There, distinctly outlined in the bright moonlight, sat a man on a coal black horse. The moon shone brightly on the polished trappings of the steed. Horse and rider re- mained motionless as if silently challenging the right of the party to the way. Jesse drew his revolver to fire, but was stopped by the excla- mation of one of the party, wno ex- claimed: “My God, it is a ghost!” The figure remained motionless and seemed to gradually fade away before their eyes as Jesse turned his horse and took the other road. “T’ve seen him befor,” said Jesse, but refused to offer any further ex- planation. It is said that several other mem- bers of the so-called James gang have seen the phantom, among them Bill Ryan and Dick Little, and can vouch for the authenticity of this account. The phantom was generally alluded to as “Jesse’s ghost,” and is said to have appeared to him shortly before his death. Jesse seemed to recognize the phan- tomas the ghost of somebody he had known in life, but was strangely -silent on the question and never youchsafed any explanation. AN HONEST OUTLAW. One day Frank James was on a train going to St. Louis. The car was crowded and it fell to his lot to sit beside a quiet, blue-eyed, mother- ly-looking little woman, who was traveling alone and was particularly afraid of train robbers. The lady finally struck up a con- versation with her fellow passenger and confided to him her fears. “Do you think, now there is any danger of this train being stopped by the James boys?” she asked. “I do not think there is the least danger.” rephed Frank James. “What would you doif they should come?” she asked with bated breath, “I don't know,” said the alleged outlaw. “I suppose I would hide behind the seat, or throw my money and valuables under the cushion and Save a liitle to give to the robbers.” “Well, you look like a good, honest on A IO a RR | asking his name (which he did not give) and being told by him that | he was a stockman from Texas on | Lis way to St. Louis, | this train will be stopped and I wish “I am afraid you would take care of my money | and jewelry until I get toSt. Louis.” Frank Jawes took the lady's purse, containing about $400, advising her to keep a small sum to give to the robbers in case they came, saw her returned her money and intact. her protector was. THE TWO ASTONISHED DRUMMERS. After his surrender many ¢ urious | things occurred. One day at the | two commercial travelers from the east. Asusual the talk turned on the James boys. ‘The drummers did not know Frank James and berated style, calling them cowards, robbers, appealing to Frank to substantiate their theories. was particulaily belligerent, ing that he would not be afraid to meet Frank James anywhere; that he heard he was a broken down con- | sumptive and never shot a man unless he got the drop on him. “IT guess you are right.” Frank, as they strolled isto the cor- ridor from the dining room. nine is Frank James.” The drummers left the house im- mediately, sent a boy back for their grips and are supposed to have walked out of town the next | station. Several parties who over- heard a part of the conversation had a great deal of fun chuckling over the discomfiture to of the commercial afternoon.—Kansas that travelers City Star ia cured in s for 75 cents by Detchon’s “Mystic Cure.”’ money on other remedies. This lutely never tails. Sold by W. J. pown, Druggist, Butler, Mo. abso LANS- S-6m. Communicated. Evreka Sprives, ARK., Aug. 17, 88. Ep. Trves:—“Roughing” it for one’s health is all right unlessit gets too rough, and I conelude it’s too rough when you are out in a_hail- storm with the magnitude of the one which fell at Schell City on Aug. 6th. However, bad beginnings make good endings, and I hope it will be so in my case—at least I am doing reason. | ably well now. I found a lot of Tennesseeans at Rogers and rested a couple of days there. Rogers is a thriving little town of about 2,000 inhabitants; has a round-house, a dry-house, a canning factory, and other enterprises too numerous to mention, and bids fair to become quite a city. From there I came to Eureka, and will not attempt to de- scribe it, only that it seems to me that this must have been the round- up of creation, and the debris left over was cast in here promiscuously and with no regard to position at that. TI find the people here in Ar- kansas to be clever and accomimo- | dating, with the poorer class pre- dominating. But they are battling along and are doing well in general, and have a place where they can have solitude and quiet to perfection. | Huron, Mich., safely toa hotel in St. Louis and) valuables | The lady never knew who! | there was a crowd. One of the drummers | declar- | | said | ty. “My | at all the stations, but at only a few Do not suffer and waste { ae anyway,” said the woman ey THU RMAN’ Ss TRIP To PORT Ww | RON. Greeted With Crowds and Cheers at Every Station—Speeches on the Tariff. Toledo, Aug. 21.—Judge Thurman and party left Columbus at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, bound for Port j he opens the The train the Judge where campaign to-morrow. was greeted with a crowd for first time at Powell, and Thurman spoke briefly. At Delaware enthusiastic spoke great and Judge Thurman on | the Merchants’ hotel in Independence | tax levied by the general government | the tariff. He said: “What is a tariff? Itis a tax, a ing men as well as cther menuse. It is a tax that takes a hold of every- Frank James sat at a table opposite | upon the commodities that the labor- thing from the crown of your head to the soles of your feet; that taxes the James boys in themostapproved | your hat, your coat, your vest, your breeches, your boots, your shoes; murderers, and every once ina while } that taxes every implement which use in and And now you your mechanical agricultural operations. to tell me that to take a laboring man and tax him from the top of jhis head to the soles of his feet, and that he tax him seems to me to be nothing else than absurdi- to tux him on everything uses in his trade, and to heavily, is a benefit to him, [Applause. ] There were greater or less crowds did the train stop long enough for the “Old Roman” to make re- mark-. At Marion there were overa thousand gathered, but just as | judge speech the At Upp time for: any the was getting started on a train moved off. there v4 Sandusky was In e minutes’ speech. closin Jee Thurman said: When a man tells a laboring man that a tariff tax—for the nothing but a tax—which in the price he pays for ey tariff is axes him rything he wears from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet, thing for him, I answer that it is an absurdity. [Applause.] What man ever got rich by having his hard earnings taken out of his pocket by taxation? And to say that a country could be made rich by heavily taxing its people isjan absurdity that no- body but a high protectionist would dare to assert.’ [Renewed ap- plause. } At Carey the crowd was illumin- | ated by means of the huge flame from a natural well. Judge Thurman in his remarks referred to the surplus and said that it ought to be distributed among the people. At Toledo a great crowd had gathered. After reviewing a proces- sion Judge Thurman addressed the 5,000 persons present. He confined himself to the tariff. In the course of his remarks he said: “There isa man named Barnum in this country, a great showman, a man who has gathered together in his show more curious things than perhaps can be found in any other single place on the face of the earth, but among all his curiosities he has never found such a curiosity as the manufacturer who paid higher wages to his hands because of a rise in the tariff. Why, my friends, if that is is a good rg gas Some of the valleys here are perfect | the case, if a high tariff reduces Paradises and will produce well. All | in all I am pleased with the country prices please tell me why it is that all the manufacturers are in favor of and think my trip will be a great/|a high tariff? Do they want to re- benefit to my health. From here I) go to Jonesboro, and may again drop | you a line. Respectfully. J. N. Suanrp. Itch, Mange and scratches or every kind on human or animals cured in 30 | minutes by Wooltord’s Sanitary Lotion. This never tails. Sold by W. J. Lans- down, Butler, Mo. duce the price of their own goods? Do they want to make less money? | Why do they work so hard to in- |erease the tariff if to increase it would reduce the price of the goods? That is another case of the absurdi- ties of these men who are going 11-6m | around trying to persuade the peo- Alarge lumber dealer in Maine | ple of the country that a high tariff tells a correspondent of the New} York World that if the Mills bill re- duces price of lumber the deai- ercan stand it because they wealthy, whilst poor are building houses would be to put them up much cheaper. That is the doctrine of the Mills bill, and that is the reasen why it should sue- ceed. The consumers are cr out for relief from oppressive tion and the protected manufactur- ers and dealers are strong enough to stand the reduction which is de- manded in the interests of the com- mon people. are able asts Sts people who , Pie | pocus is it; by what kind of opera- ‘is for the benefit of the people. I 'want youto ask any one of them ‘who talks to you about the countr} | being made rich by a high protect- ive tariff by what kind of hocus- tion unknown to science, unknown to reason, unknown to experience, {that a country can be made rich by this government taxing its people far beyond any necessity that the »vernmient has for taxation?” The only rich man is he who has just enough and is only willing to spend less than he makes. | Shabby Treatment of the Di {atthe outset was very much opposed jto the Mills bill. and who has never | iS accused of being a free-trader, v istinguished Party at Ft. Wayne. Ft. Wayne, Ind., Aug. € and Mrs. Harrison and Judce Wm. A. Woods and family arrived here at 2oclock p.m. by the Wa road ina special car en route for | Toledo. Although the arrival of the General and party was expected here twelve hours in advance only a very slim and chilly crowd gathered to greet them. When the trein pulled | up Gen. Harrison walked slowly out on the platform, and, surveying the! alighted and shook meagre crowd, 3 hands with a few personal aud party | His face manner friends who approached. was alarmingly pale, his troubled and nervous, and his — s- ence as chilling as ever. It was evident he was mortified at the ee ge garly reception and colc welcome | extended by the republicans of Fort | | Wayne. A politi were the chief mourn the all the people who | > depot not fifty i the were few local rs at tion, and with round hI mbled to see statese them people ass man, and half of demo- | erats. Republicans gave all sorts of excuses for the s yy nner in | which Gen. Harrison was received. They pleaded that no one knew of his coming and gave a variety of other reasons, but the fact that he was expected last night and that a} few leaders about town well knew of } ais coming explodes all their apolo- No presidential candidate in | the history of the nation ever received | gies. such a tiserable welcomeas did Gen. Harrison. It indicates for him in this locality. the feeling | and no other | construction can be placed on the | affair. Gen. Harrison and his party | lid not take dinner, as the Associ- ated Press telegrams indicate, though the train stopped twenty minutes. al- | iment removes all , or Calloused Lumps and Blemishes from horses, Blood Spavin, Curbs, Splints, Sweeney, Stifles, Sprains Sore and Swollen Throat, Coughs, Etc- Save $50 by use of one bottle. Warrant, ed. Sold by W. J. Lanspowy, Drug- gist, Butler, Mo S-1yr. } Were They B The discussion tish Free ? of the fisheries treaty this week has brought into notice again the provisions of the treaty with the British government, negotiated in 1874 by President Ulysses S. Grant and Secretary of State Hamilton Fish. By the terms of the treaty which they negotiated, but which the senate failed to adopt, she following articles from Canada were put on the free list: Wool, flax, pease, petroleum, poultry, rags, salt and lumber. These are in the free list of the Mills bill. But the sreaty which General Grant and Secretary Hamilton Fish negotiated went further and put the following out of fifty other articles on the free iist, which the Mills bill leaves sub- ject to duty as at present: Fire brick, butter, cheese, hay, lard, lime, malt, barley, rye, oats, corn, straw, tallow, ete., etc. If the Mills bill means “ruin” to the farmers of New York state, then General Grant and Hamilton Fish must have wished to make northern New York a howling | wilderness. Republican newspapers know their present twaddle is merely a last effort to “fool the farmers” ence more.—Albany Argus. Mr. Vance, a democratic member of congress from Connecticut, who has been making observations in his state since the passage of the Mills bill in the house, and finds that both | manufacturers, who need free raw | material, and workingmen, who want | cheaper clothing, are talking tariff | reform. 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